Psy110 Final

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Repression

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defends the conscious mind against anxiety by forcing anxiety-providing thoughts into the unconscious.

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Projection

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defends the conscious mind against anxiety by seeing the anxiety-producing thought in someone/something else.

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Reaction formation

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defends the conscious mind against anxiety by 1) repressing the anxiety producing thought or belief and 2) consciously developing the opposite thought or belief.

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Regression

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defends the conscious mind against anxiety by retreating to an earlier or safer time.

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Rationalization

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defends the conscious mind against anxiety by coming up with “logical” reasons for illogical behavior.

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Denial

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defends the conscious mind against anxiety by saying that he anxiety-producing situation isn’t so.

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Displacement

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involves finding a safer target for feelings of aggression.

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DSM-IV

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the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Fourth Edition), a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders. Presently distributed in an updates “text revision”

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Generalized anxiety disorder

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an anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal

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Phobias

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an anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder

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an anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and or actions

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Dissociation disorder

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disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings

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Mood disorders

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psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes

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Major depression

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a mood disorder in which a person, for no apparent reason, experiences two or more weeks of depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, and diminished interest or pleasure in most activities

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Bipolar disorder

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a mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania

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Schizophrenia

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a group of severe disorders by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions

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Delusions

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false beliefs, often of persecution of grandeur that may accompany psychotic disorders

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Hallucinations

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false sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external stimulus

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Psychiatrists

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a branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medical treatments as well as psychological therapy

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Psychologists

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the science of behavior and mental processes

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Clinical Psychologists

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a branch of psychology that studies, asses, and treats people with psychological disorders

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Psychosurgery

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surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior

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Prefrontal Lobotomy

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a now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves that connect the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain

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Electroconvulsive Shock (ECT)

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a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient

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Psychoanalysis

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Freud’s theory of personality and therapeutic technique that attributes our thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflict. Freud believed the patients free associations, resistance, dreams, and transferences-and the therapist’s interpretations of them-released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight

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Token economy

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an operant conditioning procedure that rewards desired behavior. A patient exchanges a token of some sort, earned for exhibiting the desired behavior, for various privileges or treats

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Eclectic Approach

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an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client’s problem, uses techniques from various forms of therapy

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Behavior Therapy

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therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors

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Systematic Desensitization

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a type of counter conditioning that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias

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approach-approach conflict

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avoidance-avoidance conflict

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Approach-avoidance conflict

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Behavior Therapy

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therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors

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Systematic Desensitization

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a type of counter conditioning that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias

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Tricyclic antidepressants

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stops the reuptake of the neurotransmitters into the axon terminal

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MAO inhibitors

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blocks the degradation of the neurotransmitters in the synapse by inhibiting the action of a crucial enzyme in that degeneration

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Post traumatic stress disorder

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the anxiety the person is experiencing can be traced back to a specific trauma

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Be able to think through the example of Classical conditioning in which immune system suppression was the Unconditioned Response and Conditioned Response

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The drug that suppresses the immune system is the Conditioned stimulus. You give the drug with a soda or something like that, then a few days later you give them just the drug and down goes immune function.

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Compare the relationship of social isolation to life expectancy with that of smoking, hypertension, obesity, and physical activity

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The individuals in question have been stressed, causin ghtem to turn on the stress-response (the secretion of glucocorticoids, epinephrine, and so on). The duration and magnitude of the stress-response in these individuals is bug enough to suppress immune function, which increases he odds of these individuals getting some infectious diseases, and impairs their ability to defend themselves against that disease once they have it.

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What is proven relationship of stress to cancer

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stress has not been proven to increase thee risk of cancer in humans

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What are the symptoms of depression

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loss of pleasure
Anhedonia-the inability to feel pleasure
great grief
great guilt
too few positive emotion
too many negative emotions
overwhelmed with despair

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What did the chapter conclude about the role of genetics in depression

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while genetics do play a part in the role of depression in families, so does the environment that family members share